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Running XP (SP3) - Not able to read some fonts on some websites

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Fonts used on some pages become symbols, random letters and punctuation marks. (Ex: Yahoo.com)

When cut and past into another program they are readable.

Have tried refreshing Have removed and reinstalled Firefox

No problem with IE or Chrome

Fonts used on some pages become symbols, random letters and punctuation marks. (Ex: Yahoo.com) When cut and past into another program they are readable. Have tried refreshing Have removed and reinstalled Firefox No problem with IE or Chrome

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Missing icons are usually supplied by a font that is downloaded from the server (@font-face) as you might see by little boxes that show the hex code of the characters instead. If you have a font installed that covers this Unicode range then you may see a real (CJK) character and not the little box with the CSS code.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own fonts.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced: [X] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

You can check the gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled pref on the about:config page and make sure that it is set to true (if necessary double-click the line to toggle its value to true).

Firefox 41 will allow icon fonts that use PUA code points to work with the font setting in "Options/Preferences > Content > Colors" disabled. When unsupported code points are used then you see the little boxes with the hex code.